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Good news, irregular couples and much else in between
It's quite an interesting and dynamic period for the Church. The Synod of Bishops is meeting in Rome, the Year of Faith has been inaugurated and the 50th anniversary of Vatican Council II is being commemorated. Each one of these events is important...
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Say Hello to The Twins
October is soon to be inaugurated the month for sickeningly shameful court sentences, but since I’ve already written about the absurdity of all that, since I’ve already felt sick to my stomach reading ridiculous judgements and since it seems that...
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Joseph declared King as Labour sweeps the billboards war
Elections are won by strange things. Obama in the US might get dumped as president for having a bad day when he debated with Mitt. So in theory the most potent man in the world could be the best debater but the lousiest decision-maker. Sounds eerie...
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Lighten up, folks
There's still about two weeks left to go before Halloween night hits, but it seems like the panic has already kicked off across the cyber-waves. Last year we had a parish priest sending an apocalypse-now style missive to the parishioners; feeding...
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BOGEYMEN EVERYWHERE
The state to which some areas of the media have been reduced is pathetic, really. These so-called journalists seem to have dedicated themselves to following the outpourings of characters such as that Debono fellow and the other bitter...
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MUSCAT'S FLIP-FLOPS
"A Labour government would build on the success in the gaming sector..." said Joseph Muscat last Thursday, no doubt while he was in the flip cycle of his mode of electioneering. Out of this side of his face, Muscat sends the message that Labour in...
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The Republic of Mellieha
In the 1980s the Republic of Zejtun was established in the south of Malta. It was perhaps more akin to anarchy than to a republic. Its citizens were exempt for the laws that bound the rest of us. If they felt that they were provoked they could...
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The stuff of dreams
Let’s clear something which possibly needs clarifying: government is there to govern and the opposition to oppose. At the moment the former seems to have forgotten how to govern while the latter is more intent on staying mum for fear of uttering...
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Do not call me gay
IMPORTANT Disclaimer - this blog is not to be consumed literally. If you lack the sarcastic gene, please skip to the crosswords. During my years at University, two of my very best friends hailed from Mellieha. To be perfectly honest, I always...
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DEMOCRATIC CREDENCE
Carmelo Abela, writing in the other paper on Monday morning, made something of a noise about how it was time for the country to be returned to democracy and such-like stirring calls to arms. You'd have thought he was about to take up knitting and...
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The gay, backwater of Mellieha?
I know I shouldn’t be flippant, really, given that the incident points to a highly disturbing mentality where the word “gay” is used as an insult and is also perceived as one by its recipient. But seriously, the amount of “what the hells” (since I’m...
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On realistic dreams and visions
October brings with it the opening of the Academic year. After a long summer where I did a lot of work on two chapters for two different academic publications besides managing to upgrade the power point presentations and reading lists that I will be...
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GUNNING FOR FUN
Austin Gatt is firmly in the sights of Franco Debono, aided and abetted, cynically and opportunistically, by the Labour Party in all its (in)gloriousness. That film title fits the lot of them well. The reasons why Debono has it in for Gatt are...
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UTTERLY PITIFUL
The Government has postponed the privatisation (properly, change in operation, they've been virtually privately-run for yonks) of a number of car-parks, regarding which the Opposition had presented a motion. This did not prevent the Opposition...
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Great new space
It’s always a great thing to see quality spaces sprouting. The Mdina ditch was in such shambles that we hardly knew it existed. Now Zap! It’s been transformed into what sounds like a glorious piece of relaxing space. How great such plans are, what...
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GETS WORSE
The confusion compounded by Joseph Muscat's moveable feast about the minimum wage was made even more profound by his Writer-in-Residence, Karmenu Vella and his (gaffe?) about how the living wage concept is still on the cards. Come on, guys,...
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Should Bishop Paprocki be quartered and hanged?
The local breed of budding secularists have anointed themselves with a secular mission of rubbishing anyone with any connection with the Church for being so audacious (not to say down right arrogant) and dare to touch anything that has to do with...
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BABY YOU CAN PARK MY CAR
So it came to pass that the Government listened to the people and suspended a decision of immense national import, the privatisation of car parks, of all things. It came to pass, thus, that the Opposition's motion to have the notion of privatisation...
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PROMISE THE EARTH, AND THE MOON
Just noticed I haven’t blogged for a bit – so sorry, time flies and all that. Don’t you think that Labour Lil’elves, and sometimes I wonder whether we shouldn’t start calling Joseph Muscat L.I.C. (work it out) slightly missed the point about the...
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Family Crimes
Today, the Court of Criminal Appeals decided to uphold a previous judgement and jail a mother for three months. Her crime? Not assault, not drugs, and not even theft. Her crime, if you so want to call it, was that of not allowing her ex-husband...
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